Dreaming the Dream of Scipio.
- Author / Editor
- Koff, Leonard Michael.
Dreaming the Dream of Scipio.
- Published
- Nancy van Deusen, ed. Cicero Refused to Die: Ciceronian Influence through the Centuries (Boston: Brill, 2013) , pp. 65-83.
- Description
- Explores how Chaucer's adaptations in PF of Macrobius's Neoplatonic commentary on Cicero's "Dream of Scipio" anticipate "the humanist recovery of Ciceronian ideals," particularly the "ideal of marriage and mating as civic duty" and the "possibility of a monarchical continuity that counsels adjudication between personal prerogatives and the social duties of love."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations